NEW YORK—No need to leave Manhattan to find a true slice of Irish culture, from blarney to soaring poetic language: Three evocative one-acts can be presently seen on the intimate stage of the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre, downstairs at the Irish Repertory Theatre.
Director Charlotte Moore has cannily linked consecutively the comedic “The Pot of Broth” (1903), co-written by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory, with Lady Gregory’s serious political study “The Rising of the Moon” (1907), and John Millington Synge’s heartbreaking “Riders to the Sea” (1904). The plays unravel smoothly, with only brief musical interludes to indicate their separateness.
